Truthfully both the Leia and the Mara are pretty cheap on EBay. You can find Mara's for less that $10 easy, Leia is a bit more. I got a pretty good deal on her. Reminds me, I ought to get a in-package Mara.

Nahhhh I'm now in the "looking and deciding what to plunder next" mode...

I've decided that other than a few of the cooler little figures things, I'm going to mostly focus on the 12" line and get me all of the larger giftsets, particularly the animal ones: stormtrooper and Dewback, Captain Tarpas and his critter, Han and TaunTaun. I like the cool- statue or replica type feel of them as items. I like that they can be posed whereas statues and are just so stiff.

I'll still pick up like the Ani/Padme and other figures who grab my fancy in the smaller figures- but I'm going to mostly lay off on them. There's just too many out there and I don't want to keep everything in package. Well not new stuff anyway.

Anne

Yeah I probably shouldn't have bought them either, but I don't care - they were too good of a deal to pass up on

As an FYI to everyone the TRU giftset w/ Leia and Han in Carbonite is REALLY nice! The Leia (hidden under the huge Boushh mask) is made w/ the pretty Leia headmold

My Padme and Qui-Gon set showed up a while ago and I have to say that although Hasbro's still having a hard time figuring out how to make a Padme doll attractive -they are the best looking figures that I think I own. The Qui-Gon in particular is taller than just 12" I think, and his facemold looks JUST like Liam The costumes on both are exquisitely detailed also. Padme's is velvet.

Maybe they haven't done the Padme line from AOTC because they know that they just haven't gotten her face right yet.

On another note - the very first 12" Princess Leia doll from Hasbro from like 1996 is the saddest thing I've ever seen. I found one deboxed on ebay for $1. Poor dear. Her head in profile looks like Carrie Fisher, but she's got the UGLIEST body ever. It's butchy, and stumpy. You know it's got to be bad when it makes the old vintage Leia's look feminine

I didn't know padme_skywalkr, but am sorry to hear about a loss of a beloved SW fan

My introduction to SWANH occurred at a later time in life for me, as I was a young mother of 31 at the time of its release. I wasn?t aware of the toys at the time and it was probably years later that I went to a Science Fiction convention and picked up magazines with articles on SW. When the Action Master and Bend-ems came out, I think those were the first SW ?toys? that I picked up. Then the POTF2 line came along in ?95 and I started picking up ALL the figures and continued until just this year.

I was in a collecting group in Colorado, but I was the only female and really didn?t run into any female SW fans until I got online.

I enjoy having a lot of my SW collection displayed, and my husband has been good about it, but I keep it limited to one room, plus what I have stashed. [link=http://r2toyforce.net/IMAGES/deeblue6withframefa_7.jpg]Collection[/link]

As was previously mentioned by a few other female SW fans, one of the neat collectibles I?d like to have is the life-size Han in Carb. I?ve resigned myself to be happy with the [link=http://r2toyforce.net/IMAGES/collectionlibrarydeska_7s.jpg]TRU 12in Han in carb set[/link] ....which you can see in the corner.

Well I bought mine out of box so there's no guilt in displaying them that way

I've actually picked up several 12" figures online that way - dirt cheap recently. I got a Darth Maul, the first Hasbro Leia (ugly doll- but for a buck - I figured I'd take pity on the poor thing) the Qui-Gon/Padme giftset, the black and the red gown portrait Padmes... I got all of those dolls for $40.

I love taking the figures out of package. IMO for some reason, they look better once they're out of box. I have no idea why. I now need to pick up an AOTC Anakin to see if that theory further holds up.

r2dee2

Welcome! I love your pictures of your collection! I see you got that deluxe Chewie head from Illusive Concepts - I wanted one of those badly but missed him Oh well- I have a standard one by Don Post that I can put on whenever I want to scare the hell out of my dog

I'm actually a heathen and open most of my figures as well...hehehe. I like to decorate my desks (both home and work) with them. The only ones I keep carded are ones that are somewhat rare and the Clone Wars animated ones because I love the packaging on those...LOL

And the 12" figures for the most part stay in the boxes (except my vintage ones which I actually played with as a kid)

I would have missed that Illusive Chewie too, but I'd read online that they were being clearanced out at Spencers toys. I was THRILLED to get him for $35! What's neat, you can comb his hair to get any look you like
It IS a very nice piece, but the Don Post stuff is GREAT too!!

Well I definetly open all my things, I just love being able to turn the around and see all the details, I am a costume nerd and sometimes action figures can be really helpful.

Personally I have to buy everything from ebay, I'm mostly interested in TPM Amidala's and they weren't even sold here, and if I find them at some stores in Europe they are way more expensive even if you have to include shipping from ebay.

Well today I got my hands on the battle of Naboo twin pack, so that means that I still need the Return to Naboo and after that I will start with the cheaper collection. There's a Swedish guy who bought a couple of the collection dolls, and he knows that if he can't get rid of them I'll buy them from him, so that's OK.

My "bargain" find cost nothing! I got a Wal-Mart toy display sign. It's in two rectangular pieces, the SW logo is on one, and Anakin and Yoda (both with lightsabers) is on the other, and has a line of clone troopers in the background. It hangs proudly over my bed.

I just want to pop on in here and introduce myself. I'm nowhere near new to collecting(been going at it for 8 years now) but I've just recently started checking out the collecting forum and found this thread.

I basically collect the basic 3 3/4" and 12" action figures as well as books. Occasionally, I'll pick up something else like collector plates and rare objects. Overall, I have a fair size collection and I hope to share some of my experiences with all of you.